Faye Dunaway, left, and Warren Beatty present the award for best picture at the Oscars on Sunday at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)Faye Dunaway, left, and Warren Beatty present the award for best picture at the Oscars on Sunday at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

"It's so nice seeing you again," Beatty quipped, with Dunaway adding, "As they say, presenting is lovelier the second time around." And the top prize went to ... The Shape of Water, with director Guillermo Del Toro, who also won best director Sunday night, accepting the prize with his cast and team. "I was a kid enamored with movies," he said. "Growing up in Mexico, I thought this could never happen. It happens. I want to tell you, everyone that is dreaming of a parable of using genre fantasy to tell the stories about the things that are real in the world today, you can do it. This is a door—kick it open and come in."

The only reason this movie won was the rest of the field was completely unwatched. It didn't have anything that would make me even rent the DVD. Get Out at least had a watchable plot line. Beauty and the Water beast without the singing is simply stupid.

Aka Mogg

Mar 5, 2018 3:49 PM CST

I only watched the trailer but it looks like ET meets BLM and NOW to me.

John Rieber

Mar 5, 2018 9:46 AM CST

It was a unique Academy Awards ceremony to be sure: talk of "inclusion riders" and #meToo - but in the end, it's about awarding films worthy of the attention, and "The Shape Of Water" is certainly that: a film that is indeed about all of the major social issues being discussed today - it's terrific - https://johnrieber.com/2018/03/05/the-shape-of-water-guillermo-del-toros-masterpiece-the-best-film-of-2017-2/